Sanitary drinking protector



Oct. 18, 1938. v, ARATO ET AL 2,133,318

SANITARY DRINKING PROTECTOR Filed June 10, 1937 INVENTORS VINCENT ARATO Patented Oct. 18, 1938 2,133,318

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SANITARY DRINKING PROTECTOR Vincent Arato and Antonio Gallucci, Peekskill, N. Y.

Application June 10, 1937, Serial No. 147,443

1 Claim. (01. 6513) This invention relates to lip protectors for bev- This guard may present a crowned upper edge erage containers, as glass tumblers, goblets, cups, or flat, as preferred; in any case its main body mugs and the like. portion is curved arcuately conformable to a An object of the invention is to provide a sanglass but of slightly less radius to fit snugly around 5 itary shield, readily applied to any of the usual a portion of its circumference. 5 forms of drink containers, whereby the lips are Extending integrally from its end edges are prevented from coming in contact with the rim projections 8, curved re-entrantly, as at 9, inof the container, but which in nowise interferes folded and creased, as at H), and so shaped as to with imbibing the liquid therein. act efficiently as a clamp, straddlingly engaging A further feature resides in the provision of a the interior surface of the glass to be frictionally 10 lip protector for glasses that prevents cutting retained over its edge, but obviously removable at the lips by contact with raw or broken edges on will. the rim. In the modification, shown in Figure 2, the

Another purpose is to produce a device for fulguard It may be made of less expensive material filling the foregoing objects, that is easily applied presenting the same general characteristics and 15 or removed, which adheres frictionally to the provided with plain extensions It at its end, wall of the glass, and is so inexpensive to conwhich may be fancifully curved and adapted to struct that it may be discarded after a single embrace the exterior of the glass only. use by an individual without material loss. Wing-like clamps l1 are firmly attached, by

These meritorious objects are accomplished by tubular rivets 18, to these end extensionsand are 20 the novel construction and arrangement of simprovided, at their upper portions, with folds l9 ple parts, hereinafter described and illustrated down-reaching to produce clamp elements 20 in the accompanying drawing, forming part of adapted to grip the inner surface of the glass, as

this disclosure, and in which:-- 1 1 i t d Figure 1 is a perspectilie Vlew snowmg an The simplicity of the device, as Well as its con- 25 bodlment 0f the inventlon and lnustratmg its struction and use is apparent and it will be obpp vious that an adequate means of protection is Fig. 2 IS a similar v1ew showing a modification provided for drinking glasses of any type and in construction.

any shape in general.

It is well known that the use of a common drinking glass promiscuously by the public is Having thus described the 1nvent1on and set forth the manner of Its construction and applihighly fraught with danger, by reason of the possibility of communicating disease, is unsanicanon: What 18 clalmed as new and sought tary, uncleanly and distasteful in the extreme to Secure by Letters Patent,

sensitive and discriminating individuals. A p protector for k n glasses comprisin 35 Not infrequently the edges of cups and gla an arcuate strip of stiff, nonabsorptive material become chipped, cutting the lips and causing. ped to l ly engage h i r f a l s abrasions, which the use of the present device at its upp r p n and to extend thereebove, Wholly avoids. over a portion of its circumference, integral tab 40 Referring now to the drawing in further detail, extensions at each end 0f Said Strip level W 40 a conventional type of drinking glass, designated e rim 0f the glass, resilient Clamp members by the numeral 5, is shown in Figure 1, th me folded to extend over the rim of the glass and having a thin rim 6 at its upper edge. contact its interior adjacently thereto, and tubu- The protecting guard 1 is shown as comprised lar rivets uniting said clamp members to said exof a thin, generally rectangular strip of elastic, e d g ta s- 45 waterproof material such as indurated fibre, Cel- VINCENT ARATO. luloid, or similar thin fairly stiff substance capa- ANTONIO GALLUCCI.

ble of receiving and retaining the form given it. 

